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the street car cities of america had huge thoracic bases. the no street car cities whatever kind of transit you put that around create the more dense neighbors and create more income that helped us get out of this mess. >> charlie: what was your biggest job as mayor other than the budget process and looking at pension? >> well we have to make sure that we grow jobs in the city and we have two kinds of job levels if you quifl that we have to focus on. one is making sure that the high particular, high fashion, high intellectual content job that pays us well that gives us a thank you base comes here and stays here. we are in competition with all the other cities in the world. on the other end we have unemployment like other. not all but a large number of those unemployed need a different level of job. they don't have great formal education. some don't have great command of the english language, so we have to be creating those jobs. they tend to be a lot lower pay. they tend to have less benefits. but nevertheless a job is better than no job and
the street car cities of america had huge thoracic bases. the no street car cities whatever kind of transit you put that around create the more dense neighbors and create more income that helped us get out of this mess. >> charlie: what was your biggest job as mayor other than the budget process and looking at pension? >> well we have to make sure that we grow jobs in the city and we have two kinds of job levels if you quifl that we have to focus on. one is making sure that the high...
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i saw through the supreme court that the flaws that america had tried to correct them by removing those horrible signs -- "white" and "colored." i said when i testified at the trial, i went through how we were treated, and the lady dramatize it, so i do not have to go through that, but it is the whole system of separate but unequal. it is understates rights -- is under states' rights. after lincoln had freed us from slavery, they instituted this law, separate but equal, and the state had sanctioned it. but everything there was, even when they had things that were federal, they would put a rope up, and the white people would be on one side, and the black people on the other side. i prayed. i'm a baptist. i hope was that the people would hear about the injustices. [applause] >> thank you very much for giving us those highlights. we want to move to a different era in this nation's history, when those signs are no longer present, but their presence is felt. with that, i turned t to bryonn bain. >> i am supposed to perform a piece, but i just feel like i want to talk to you. can i bring the
i saw through the supreme court that the flaws that america had tried to correct them by removing those horrible signs -- "white" and "colored." i said when i testified at the trial, i went through how we were treated, and the lady dramatize it, so i do not have to go through that, but it is the whole system of separate but unequal. it is understates rights -- is under states' rights. after lincoln had freed us from slavery, they instituted this law, separate but equal, and...
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people that helped us in the 1950's that helped us get through this struggle and social change and help america get rid of some of -- one of their flaws. just like my sister said, it is a cosmetic change. we still have got to work on it. it is not just a one deal. [applause] >> we have heard about cosmetic change. bryonn bain, i want to ask what has happened since this struggle here and why we are still where we are, beyond the cosmetics. what has led to this situation that you described in new york city? >> i think racism has evolved and adapted. as the movement grew in strength and folks became more conscious, races and became more institutionally embedded. they found new ways to basically sustained slavery. michelle alexander calling it the new jim crow. between the 1960's and 1970's, the prison population across the country doubled. in the 1970's and 1980's, it tripled. in california, and build no new prisons between the 1960's and 1970's, the height of political action. between the 1970's and 1980's, they build more prisons in california alone and in the past 100 years. one thing that has
people that helped us in the 1950's that helped us get through this struggle and social change and help america get rid of some of -- one of their flaws. just like my sister said, it is a cosmetic change. we still have got to work on it. it is not just a one deal. [applause] >> we have heard about cosmetic change. bryonn bain, i want to ask what has happened since this struggle here and why we are still where we are, beyond the cosmetics. what has led to this situation that you described...
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of bank of america, inequality in america. so there's a lot of things that he's upset with. >> police also say he could undergo a psychiatric evaluation. >>> well, today is the deadline for pg&e to show its gas pipeline pressure levels are safe. the deadline is a result of the deadly explosion in san bruno last september that killed eight people. the california public utilities commission says if pg&e cannot prove that its gas pipelines are operating safely, extensive tests may be ordered. the cpuc could even order the utility company to replace some of those pipelines. >>> right now it is 4:39. toyota get an early look at the commute with sal. good morning, sal. >>> good morning, pam. right now traffic is moving along pretty well around the bay area. we're off to a very nice start which is a look at the east shore freeway. and you can see traffic is moving very well. and it's not as wet as it was yesterday. as a matter of fact, for the most part we have dry roads out there heading out to the macarthur maze, bay bridge toll pl
of bank of america, inequality in america. so there's a lot of things that he's upset with. >> police also say he could undergo a psychiatric evaluation. >>> well, today is the deadline for pg&e to show its gas pipeline pressure levels are safe. the deadline is a result of the deadly explosion in san bruno last september that killed eight people. the california public utilities commission says if pg&e cannot prove that its gas pipelines are operating safely, extensive...
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this is not backwoods rural america at all. it's just an unfortunate situation that was created probably a hundred years ago or more. and the people have to pay for it in a big way now. because the government is choosing to spend its money elsewhere right now, there's very limited money for communities to install adequate drinking water and wastewater, and i think it's criminal. that's my feeling. this country has to get its priorities right, and they're wrong right now. narrator: herminie faces problems because of the way its residents laid out the town generations earlier. across the country, many other cities and towns deal with the unexpected consequences from their early infrastructure design. los angeles county is a land of sprawling development. with development comes hundreds of square miles of concrete, leaving no way for water to naturally soak into the ground. in areas of such widespread urbanization, flooding can be devastating. man: back in early 1930s, there was a flooding that took a lot of lives and property. as
this is not backwoods rural america at all. it's just an unfortunate situation that was created probably a hundred years ago or more. and the people have to pay for it in a big way now. because the government is choosing to spend its money elsewhere right now, there's very limited money for communities to install adequate drinking water and wastewater, and i think it's criminal. that's my feeling. this country has to get its priorities right, and they're wrong right now. narrator: herminie...
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u u >> right now in america, one out of four children doesn't know where their next meal is coming from. >> food insecurity is a growing problem in the united states. >> tune in march 19th at 7:30 p.m. on nbc to see child hunger ends here: ll special report. spa >>> we are back this morning with some special guests from the humane society silicon valley. we have elizabeth and lefty who's -- i like lefty because he's a little gray at the temples like me, a little experience. >> he's about 10 years old, he's a dauchund. everything that makes comet a great search and rescue dog, he's the opposite. he's calm, he's house breoken. he loves to sit in your lap. >> you were saying that what you find interesting about meeting comet is that a lot of the animals that are successful at search and rescue are rescue animals themselves. >> about 90% of search and rescue dogs in america were rescued from an animal shelter. >> that's a really cool story to hear. a lot of them were rescue because they don't make -- >> because of their drive that they have to search and rescue, they often don't make good p
u u >> right now in america, one out of four children doesn't know where their next meal is coming from. >> food insecurity is a growing problem in the united states. >> tune in march 19th at 7:30 p.m. on nbc to see child hunger ends here: ll special report. spa >>> we are back this morning with some special guests from the humane society silicon valley. we have elizabeth and lefty who's -- i like lefty because he's a little gray at the temples like me, a little...
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. >> this report shows that america is becoming unmarried nation. we are getting married later, having children later. these are necessities, not only about women but as men -- about men as well. >> this is across class, that everyone needs access to. if professional women who want to get their ph.d. s and put off having children down and two women are starting to date and these are things that you need across class and across age. >> a question all the way of back -- in the back. >> my name is anna belle, a professional training clinician. my question is two parts. how large was your sample? and when you looked at women in the workforce, did you take into account the men and women who are coming back from the wars in iraq, iran, and afghanistan, which has absolutely change their family situation, financial situation, and the needs -- because that is really quite important to look at -- they may have had both parents working, and now things have changed. the second thing i would like to ask with regard to domestic violence, because i have worked wit
. >> this report shows that america is becoming unmarried nation. we are getting married later, having children later. these are necessities, not only about women but as men -- about men as well. >> this is across class, that everyone needs access to. if professional women who want to get their ph.d. s and put off having children down and two women are starting to date and these are things that you need across class and across age. >> a question all the way of back -- in the...
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one of the great battles, i suppose, in america is between those who drive cars and those who ride bicycles. they both feel very strongly about it, and i think there is a place for balance. we have put a lot of new bicycle lanes in, but most people in new york city either walk or take mass transit. the roads we have do not have any excess capacity, and we are not going to have more roads. bicycles is one of the answers. people that write them like them. it can be dangerous. in an accident between a car and a bicycle, the bicycle does not have good odds, but our transportation commissioner is very innovative. she does come under a lot of criticism, but when i appointed her, i said i wanted her to try new things. all of the big things, i have approved, i should take the heat, not her. we have done things like closing times square and herald square to traffic, which has been one of the most successful things we have done in terms of getting tourists and helping commerce in the area. we are trying lots of different things. different ways of paying for buses, different kinds of bus routes, and t
one of the great battles, i suppose, in america is between those who drive cars and those who ride bicycles. they both feel very strongly about it, and i think there is a place for balance. we have put a lot of new bicycle lanes in, but most people in new york city either walk or take mass transit. the roads we have do not have any excess capacity, and we are not going to have more roads. bicycles is one of the answers. people that write them like them. it can be dangerous. in an accident...
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the fed has done an excellent job of helping america recover from the financial crisis. i think they have not gotten as much credit as they deserve. i would like people to understand how important that role is and how successful it's been in stabilizing a country and promoting economic recovery and growth. >> you have members of your board that are members of the fed bank in new york. jamie diamond and others. >> jim tish is anothers yes. >> how do those two men get on that board? >> the banker, jamie diamond and the industry representatives, jim tish were elected by the bank shareholders. >> who owns the bank shares? >> bankers. ok if this is a radio show in the united states, and you are accused of being a part of a carbal and what do you say to that? >> i say in this country we are fortunate to have a system that is an interplay between government and public institutions and private expertise. and the structure of the fed is set up so that our public bank that is provided for guiding the economy, has this network of relationships with the financial community and the i
the fed has done an excellent job of helping america recover from the financial crisis. i think they have not gotten as much credit as they deserve. i would like people to understand how important that role is and how successful it's been in stabilizing a country and promoting economic recovery and growth. >> you have members of your board that are members of the fed bank in new york. jamie diamond and others. >> jim tish is anothers yes. >> how do those two men get on that...
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. >> for more information, visit the civil grand jury website at the biggest issue in america today? segregation still exists... racism... the repression and oppression of women the educational system stem cell research homeless people cloning government health care taxation announcer: so, is there anything you're doing to help make a change? i'm not really doin' anything. ummmm [sighs] got me on that one... >> welcome. we are here doing our building san francisco tour. we're going to have a very interesting tour of elevators in sanford cisco. we have all gotten into an elevator, the doors have closed, and it has carried us to our destination. have you ever wondered how elevators were -- work? we check out the need outside the elevator using current technology and we learn about the latest destination elevated technology all here in san francisco. we will also visit the machinery where all the behind- the-scenes gears control these incredible machines. we are very fortunate today to have an expert with those who is going to walk us are around elevators in san francisco. can you tell
. >> for more information, visit the civil grand jury website at the biggest issue in america today? segregation still exists... racism... the repression and oppression of women the educational system stem cell research homeless people cloning government health care taxation announcer: so, is there anything you're doing to help make a change? i'm not really doin' anything. ummmm [sighs] got me on that one... >> welcome. we are here doing our building san francisco tour. we're going...
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across america, cities and towns, homes and businesses all depend upon one basic resource. modern civilization and life itself would be impossible without it. woman: okay, so today, we're going to look at how do we get our water? narrator: and today, it's a matter of simply turning on the tap. so often, we forget about the value of water. water is a commodity that is essential to life. 100 years ago, it would have been hard to imagine turning on the tap water. and now, it's an expectation. narrator: over 300 million people live in the united states. and each person uses an average of 100 gallons of water every day. man: what it takes to actually make clean water is somewhat a mystery to most customers. woman: so how does water get from the river into your house, or here at school? woman: somebody has to bring that water to us, and somebody has to take it away when we're finished with it. man: the water infrastructure is vital for disease protection, fire protection, basic sanitation, economic development, and for our quality of life. man: you just can't visualize all the as
across america, cities and towns, homes and businesses all depend upon one basic resource. modern civilization and life itself would be impossible without it. woman: okay, so today, we're going to look at how do we get our water? narrator: and today, it's a matter of simply turning on the tap. so often, we forget about the value of water. water is a commodity that is essential to life. 100 years ago, it would have been hard to imagine turning on the tap water. and now, it's an expectation....
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they have started to move america. i want to be one of them. if i'm going to get harangued, i want to have some power to fight back. why would i make that decision? no college, no training, no education, never -- i didn't have anything to convince me that any white employer would want to hire me. but i started applying all around the place. and, finally, i was doing of all things a beauty pageant for black girls that i considered my civil rights work because it was my fight against miss america that unite our girls the right to participate. so we started our own pageant. i present the girls on television, and a writer from a daily paper wrote that surely somewhere in television there must be a place for belva davis. and i acted as though that was carved in concrete, and just apply to everybody and everything, and to finally in 1966, i read a story about a loved ronald reagan and had said that if he was elected, she would quit her anchor job and got to work for him. that he was elected, i called her boss and i told him, i want to apply for her j
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or america's competitiveness. that's what the president spoke to in the state of the union, and all kinds of people are debating this subject now. it has to do with the rise of china and india and the economic growth of those emergeing nations. it has to do with the fact that technology has no respect for boundaries, which we are discovering in the middle east right now, right? >> absolutely. >> rose: where do you come down on that in terms of america? because you're leaving america. >> america has had great natural resources, huge amount of land, and that's been extremely important in its growth. but it also has respected science and innovation, and we see great growth areas in california and the boston area, in particular. and i think america recognizes the importance of human capital. that is, intellectual capital and the generation of ideas. but it needs more nurturing. i mean, science education in the u.s. is not up to scratch. and -- >> what does that mean "not up to scratch?" >> it's just not generating eno
or america's competitiveness. that's what the president spoke to in the state of the union, and all kinds of people are debating this subject now. it has to do with the rise of china and india and the economic growth of those emergeing nations. it has to do with the fact that technology has no respect for boundaries, which we are discovering in the middle east right now, right? >> absolutely. >> rose: where do you come down on that in terms of america? because you're leaving...
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the fed has done an excellent job of helping america recover from the financial crisis. i would like to see people understand how important that role was in stabilizing the country and promoting economic recovery. >> you have members of your board that are members of the fed. janey dimo -- jamie dimon and others. how do they get on that board? >> the banker's and industry representatives were elected by bank shareholders. >> who owns bankshares? >> bankers. >> if this were certain radio shows you were being -- you were accused of being -- the fed is run by bankers who control the world. what do you say to that? >> i say in this country we have been fortunate to have a situation where there is an interplay between government and the private sector expertise. the structure of the fed is set up so our public banks -- for guiding our economy has this network of relationships with the financial community to constantly update information about what is going on. there are some members of those boards like the immediate past chairman of our board was a labor leader here presiden
the fed has done an excellent job of helping america recover from the financial crisis. i would like to see people understand how important that role was in stabilizing the country and promoting economic recovery. >> you have members of your board that are members of the fed. janey dimo -- jamie dimon and others. how do they get on that board? >> the banker's and industry representatives were elected by bank shareholders. >> who owns bankshares? >> bankers. >> if...
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america was a consumer society so when the crises came or even before china was supporting, china in hits society with a lot of money was able to take u.s. debt because we were a consuming society. >> within the u.s. you have people who borrowed, okay. the person who did the wrong thing, namely take a mortgage when they should not have borrowed that much much money, okay. it's being bailed out when the person who saved money is now on the threatf high inflation to bail the other person out with a little bit of inflation. to me, there is a moral problem. there are two moral problems. no one, the innocent is paying for the mistake. the innocent the person who did the right thing is paying for mistakes of those who did the wrong thing and the second one we by borrowing, by running this now trillion plus deficit, we are transferring the risk to futuregen race. it may work out but they should not be the ones to bear, that's the romans held is that a child shall not be responsible for the sins of his father. >> charlie: so do you accept the principles of the deficit reduction a way to begi
america was a consumer society so when the crises came or even before china was supporting, china in hits society with a lot of money was able to take u.s. debt because we were a consuming society. >> within the u.s. you have people who borrowed, okay. the person who did the wrong thing, namely take a mortgage when they should not have borrowed that much much money, okay. it's being bailed out when the person who saved money is now on the threatf high inflation to bail the other person...
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amended since they were first adopted, and they're both cornerstones for the water issues that we face in america today. allbee: the clean water act set a floor and basically said, "everybody's who's discharging "is going to have to have a permit, and to achieve this defined performance level." narrator: the clean water act regulates the discharge of pollutants into surface waters across the nation. it protects our watersheds, our recreational waters, and our drinking water intakes. man: today, more than 50% of the nation's waters are fishable, swimmable. that's almost doubled since the clean water act was passed in '72. narrator: another significant component of the clean water act was a federally funded grant program to build wastewater treatment plants to reduce pollution in the waterways. and many cities built their treatment plants with this grant money. oberstar: but even a decade after it was enacted, the reagan administration came in and cut the grant program to a loan program. and funding diminished over a period of time. now, we still have 1/3 or more of the nation's streams and lakes t
amended since they were first adopted, and they're both cornerstones for the water issues that we face in america today. allbee: the clean water act set a floor and basically said, "everybody's who's discharging "is going to have to have a permit, and to achieve this defined performance level." narrator: the clean water act regulates the discharge of pollutants into surface waters across the nation. it protects our watersheds, our recreational waters, and our drinking water...
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every day i asked myself, how could we make goods in america again so people can go back to work? there are some who believe that we can fix what is wrong with our economy not by creating jobs in our country but by simply cutting back on public health and safety, as is evidenced in hr-1, the continuing resolution offered by the majority party. cuts inspectors for food safety. i want to turn to questions i have asked in the past regarding tracking what is going on with the manufacturing of heparin, the cost of that through public sector in medicare and medicaid, and go back to march, 2008 when the new york times had an article that said the food and drug administration had linked it to 19 deaths and hundreds of severe allergic reactions, though the agency was continuing to investigate. those deaths and a large degree actions were due to components that and it up in heparin, that ended up getting into it from china. i was wondering if you completed the investigation and how many people may have died from those of imported components? that is my first question. have you finished a re
every day i asked myself, how could we make goods in america again so people can go back to work? there are some who believe that we can fix what is wrong with our economy not by creating jobs in our country but by simply cutting back on public health and safety, as is evidenced in hr-1, the continuing resolution offered by the majority party. cuts inspectors for food safety. i want to turn to questions i have asked in the past regarding tracking what is going on with the manufacturing of...
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the comment is buckle up america we're not going back to a gentler time but where we go, politics make us in a call which has a new platform to stand on and our commitment to civil discourse that we can make an impact if i think our panelists for being here and all of you for being here as well. [applause] the books will be available for citing in assigning area. just west of the student union. thank you very much. >> that concludes our coverage of the 2011 tucson of books. we have them live all weekend if you have missed any of the events that coverage will air tonight starting at 1:00 a.m. eastern. [no audio] [no audio] [no audio] [no audio] [no audio] [no audio] [no audio] [no audio] [no audio] [no audio] as it did to ship them across the atlantic. it was enormously difficult to access the wealth. there was a great transportation network, chicago, which was formed starting off on the illinois and michigan can now had a great wateree park rails only supplemented that transportation network every city and the major waterway for the river mead says c. where it meets the mississippi riv
the comment is buckle up america we're not going back to a gentler time but where we go, politics make us in a call which has a new platform to stand on and our commitment to civil discourse that we can make an impact if i think our panelists for being here and all of you for being here as well. [applause] the books will be available for citing in assigning area. just west of the student union. thank you very much. >> that concludes our coverage of the 2011 tucson of books. we have them...
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the life blood of america. the immigrants who came and to whom it was very important to get some place. >> and now you know it's the life blood of china too. i have a good fortune of being associated with new york university are are completing a joint partnership with shanghai. we had a lovely delegation of people here and had a culture exchange, and this i truly believe unlikely to me and sort of optimism, i really believe this is the future. i want to thank very much for coming. it's been a pleasure. thank you. [applause] >> you're watching booktv on c-span2. 48 hours of nonfiction authors and books every weekend. >> about five years ago, i got a letter from a teacher that i had in 8th grade in chicago. she had saved one of my papers that i had written about thanksgiving. >> she must have liked that. >> she said i kept this all these years because it was one the best papers i got from a student, and i read that paper, and i was going, hey, i was really good. >> what was it about? >> thanksgiving and what it m
the life blood of america. the immigrants who came and to whom it was very important to get some place. >> and now you know it's the life blood of china too. i have a good fortune of being associated with new york university are are completing a joint partnership with shanghai. we had a lovely delegation of people here and had a culture exchange, and this i truly believe unlikely to me and sort of optimism, i really believe this is the future. i want to thank very much for coming. it's...
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and i knew that i wanted to live in america. i went back home at the end of the summer tenures later moved to new york. a couple years ago, my wife and i -- i was in graduate school and we decided to spend some time in china. and here we are in beijing at one of these quintessentially beijing he smoggy, easy rainy afternoons and nothing to do except stare at the small television with exactly one channel and our hotel room. we see a picture of this boy and the picture was clearly taken some time in 19th century. the boy was clearly chinese in the building next to which he was standing with very clearly be a university. i sort of thought to myself, i have no idea they were chinese students ideal university in the 19th century. and i started researching the story and discovered these remarkable young men whose story i will soon tell you. they wrote a lot of letters in the cab journals. and when i read their journals in their letters, i couldn't help but feel an immediate sense of tremendous, tremendous empathy. because like them, i
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. >> reporter: the lesson so far is that america and our allies have used violence to save many libyan lives, but have failed to remove moammar gadhafi from power. i'm steve handelsman, nbc news, washington. >>> almost a year after the start of the gulf coast oil disaster, the justice department is considering manslaughter charges in the deaths of 11 workers killed when the deepwater horizon rig exploded. according to "the washington post," any such charges would probably involve bp or transocean which leaked the rig to bp. a bp employee has lost a laptop containing the personal data of 18,000 people who filed claims because of the disaster. bp has mailed letters notifying them of the potential breach. >>> the u.s. government says it is sending robotic equipment to japan to help the country regain control of its crippled nuclear plant. such devices built to withstand radiation, they could work presumably in areas where radiation levels could harm or kill humans. meanwhile, the japanese government is now admitting what many assumed, that its safeguards to protect the facility against an
. >> reporter: the lesson so far is that america and our allies have used violence to save many libyan lives, but have failed to remove moammar gadhafi from power. i'm steve handelsman, nbc news, washington. >>> almost a year after the start of the gulf coast oil disaster, the justice department is considering manslaughter charges in the deaths of 11 workers killed when the deepwater horizon rig exploded. according to "the washington post," any such charges would...
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revenue crisis are spending less and less on programs that help the working class and poor people in america we're spending less and less on teachers' salaries and less and less on police and essential services and you know meanwhile the banks have both the ability and the responsibility to make up the budget gap well i think we have a graphic of some of these band of these as we like to call in the big banks that are are not exactly paying their fair share of what we have bank of america. we have wells fargo citi bank goldman sachs all of these companies that have managed to sort of convince the regulators in washington that having a lower corporate tax rate is going to somehow trickle down to the rest of us right now and they talk about how maybe if we do this then suddenly there will be more job creation and you know to be fair it does seem like these banks these big companies have helped with job creation it's just that the job creation has been in india mexico china and abroad so how do you account for the sort of the trickle down effect has clearly not worked so far and we have no reas
revenue crisis are spending less and less on programs that help the working class and poor people in america we're spending less and less on teachers' salaries and less and less on police and essential services and you know meanwhile the banks have both the ability and the responsibility to make up the budget gap well i think we have a graphic of some of these band of these as we like to call in the big banks that are are not exactly paying their fair share of what we have bank of america. we...
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congressional funding for the national flood insurance program with property- casualty insurers association of america live at 7:00 a.m. eastern europe and spend. -- here on c-span. present obama will deliver a speech in libya today from the national defense university in washington, d.c. he will give an update on the situation there including the u.s. -- including the u.s. actions. that is the president's speech on libya tonight at 7:30 p.m. eastern live on c-span and on cspan radio. >> as protests continued in the middle east and nato is set to take control of military operations in libya, find a letter from the u.n. security officials, and searchable on the cspan video library. ♪ ♪ >> this week, charles blow, the visual op-ed columnist for "the new york times." >> charles blow, your biography starts with this, charles below is the visual op-ed columnist for "the new york times" since april 2000 age. 8 and features charts as a form of opinion journalism. what is this all about? >> it is pretty much as it says. i am a numbers guy. i'm a trend spotter. i use charts to visualize those trends. i use
congressional funding for the national flood insurance program with property- casualty insurers association of america live at 7:00 a.m. eastern europe and spend. -- here on c-span. present obama will deliver a speech in libya today from the national defense university in washington, d.c. he will give an update on the situation there including the u.s. -- including the u.s. actions. that is the president's speech on libya tonight at 7:30 p.m. eastern live on c-span and on cspan radio. >>...
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for example, in course particlat matter which most people call dust in rural america. there has been no regulatory change proposed. there has been a study, and the study interestingly enough says it gives equal weight to retaining the current standards as it does to changing them. there's been absolutely no regulatory decision made, and we've committed to listening sessions. we just had a bunch in iowa and missouri about that very matter, so i think we need to find ways to get out and speak to people where they are and explain to them because i absolutely agree with you. you know, americans don't want dirtier air or farmers who rely on clean water for their livelihood, but we just need to be able to ensure that we're doing everything we can to communicate with usda, but also in the states. >> well, i'm going to have a series of questions later. my time is about up. i would just ask you to recommit and think through that in the agency. i can assure you that the political backlash is real. it has real consequences, and so i don't know if we're going too far too fast, and
for example, in course particlat matter which most people call dust in rural america. there has been no regulatory change proposed. there has been a study, and the study interestingly enough says it gives equal weight to retaining the current standards as it does to changing them. there's been absolutely no regulatory decision made, and we've committed to listening sessions. we just had a bunch in iowa and missouri about that very matter, so i think we need to find ways to get out and speak to...